Barbara Willard
British novelist (1909–1994) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Barbara Mary Willard (12 March 1909 – 18 February 1994)[1] was a British novelist best known for children's historical fiction. Her "Mantlemass Chronicles" is a family saga set in 15th to 17th-century England. For one chronicle, The Iron Lily (1973), she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by panel of British children's writers.[2]
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Born | 12 March 1909 Brighton, England |
Died | 18 February 1994 (1994-02-19) (aged 84) Wivelsfield, England |
Occupation | novelist |
Nationality | British |
Notable works | The Richleighs of Tantamount (1966) |
Notable awards | Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (1973) |
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